{"id":6146,"date":"2021-02-11T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sixmignons.com\/2021\/02\/11\/sewing-with-silk-the-dior-dress\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:05:50","slug":"sewing-with-silk-the-dior-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixmignons.com\/en\/2021\/02\/11\/sewing-with-silk-the-dior-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing silk: my “nearly Dior” dress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you have fabric stored in your stash, that you adore but is far too precious to touch? <\/strong>That’s exactly how I felt about this one: a silk-wool mix, with a modernised jungle toile de Jouy pattern, directly from Dior’s resort collection of a few years ago. Very expensive, very delicate… and very scary to work with!! Let me introduce you to my Dior silk dress:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE fabric: Dior toile de Jouy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I was familiar with Dior’s toile de Jouy jungle theme <\/strong>thanks to my lovely husband, who surprised my with a gorgeous handbag a few years ago. Jouy en Josas, were toile de Jouy originated from, also holds a special place in our hearts as this is where we studied and started dating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toile de Jouy is characterised by pastoral scenes <\/strong>with a a few characters depicted in a natural background; and with the same motif repeated all over the fabric. Dior has reinterpreted it with jungle backgrounds<\/strong>, making it less traditional and a far more funky – my fabric is mostly palms and palm trees, with a few birds hardly visible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting hold of such a beauty was no small matter<\/strong>. I had previously missed the exact same fabric in blue from Selvedge and Bolts<\/a> (one of my favourite fabric shops) – matching my bag, arrrgghhh!!!. So when it came back in a colour which is definitely not within my usuals, I did not think and immediately ordered 3 meters<\/strong>! – from my phone on the street… My Bestie was there and can testify… Fabric addiction is that bad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sewing with silk… again!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

And then it stayed in my stash until I felt confident enough to sew it<\/strong>! That actually only happened a few weeks ago, when my first big silk project – otherwise named the coral bubble dres<\/a>s – turned out as a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wrote a full article with advice and tips on how to sew silk here<\/a><\/strong>, so do have a read for more details. I did pretty much followed my own advice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n